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Mayor Naheed Nenshi made good on his Grey Cup bet with Ottawa mayor Jim Watson at Monday’s council meeting. Eight days after the Ottawa Redblacks defeated the Calgary Stampeders in Grey Cup overtime, Nenshi donned a Redblacks jersey and recited a poem in council chambers penned by Watson. “Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder […]

Changes are coming to the Calgary Stampeders lineup. It’s inevitable, and everybody around McMahon Stadium knows it. If GM John Hufnagel has his way, though, the core of the team that went 15-2-1 this season before falling to the Ottawa RedBlacks in Sunday’s Grey Cup will still be in Calgary when training camp kicks off […]

Dave Dickenson has reviewed it over and over and admits it was the wrong play call, because it didn’t work. But to question the decision, the rationale behind it and the man who made it is, quite frankly, asinine. Of the 10 million Canadians who tuned into Sunday’s Grey Cup game, not a single person […]

Together, they made up much of the core of the Calgary Stampeders roster this season. The team’s leading receiver, the CFL’s sack-leader, the league’s Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman and its two kickers. That would be Marquay McDaniel, Charleston Hughes, Derek Dennis, Rob Maver and Rene Paredes, who are among the 25 or 26 Stampeders players […]

It’s going to take a while before the Calgary Stampeders start feeling better. That’s OK, these things take time. You lose the Grey Cup in overtime after mounting a heroic comeback and it’s going to sting for a while. But when it’s all said and done, Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson hopes his players can […]

By any measure, it was a cruel and unusual kind of torture. Minutes after the Calgary Stampeders lost the Grey Cup to the Ottawa RedBlacks on Sunday, Rob Maver was told he needed to do a drug test. Not great timing, but it’s part of the game and the Stampeders punter understood he had to […]

The Calgary Stampeders did their best to wear a strong face on locker room cleanout day at McMahon Stadium. Two days after being defeated 39-33 by the underdog Ottawa Redblacks in the 104th Grey Cup game, the Stamps filled bags with their belongings, gritted their teeth through obligatory media ops and said goodbye.

Cornish, who was to speak at a Calgary symposium this week on the issue of concussions, said he disagreed with comments made last Friday by league Commissioner Jeffrey Orridge that there's no proven link between the two.

TORONTO – There’s always next year, right? That’s what Calgary Stampeders fans and players will surely be repeating to themselves in the wake of Sunday’s heartbreaking 39-33 loss to the Ottawa RedBlacks in Sunday’s Grey Cup. Not Marquay McDaniel. Not even a little bit, if his Twitter account is to be believed. “People keep saying […]

The blueprint should have been thrown out two years ago. It didn’t work then. And it doesn’t work now. The Seattle Seahawks were poised to win Super Bowl XLIX, facing a second and goal from the one-yardline with 26 seconds remaining. But instead of handing the ball to running back Marshawn Lynch, the most powerful […]

TORONTO – Henry Burris wasn’t even supposed to play. The Calgary Stampeders wish he hadn’t. Smilin’ Hank did a number on his old team, slicing the Stamps defence for 461 yards and a trio of touchdowns through the air. The Ottawa RedBlacks quarterback, who hobbled off the field after pre-game warmups, also scored a pair […]

It was an upset ending to a near-perfect season for fans of the Calgary Stampeders. At the Home and Away sports bar on the Red Mile, fans sporting Stamps jerseys cheered on their hometown heroes, screaming in disbelief as the Stamps allowed two interceptions minutes before halftime. But fan support was not enough to push […]

TORONTO – It wasn’t the legacy-building, superstar performance Bo Levi was craving. Instead, Sunday’s Grey Cup may have marked the lowpoint of Bo Levi Mitchell’s CFL career thus far. The 26-year-old showed flashes of the talent that saw him win the CFL’s most valuable player award this season – especially in the second half – […]

TORONTO — No matter what happened, on a crisp evening in late November on the manicured grass of BMO Field, the Calgary Stampeders were going to post an L. For Loss. Or for Legacy. It was entirely up to them. And they dropped the ball. Literally on occasion. And figuratively for large chunks of the night. […]

Close. So very close. But Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is going to have to pay up after the Stampeders failed to capture the Grey Cup. He owes Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson a poem reading of the latter’s choosing while wearing a RedBlacks jersey. And the local food bank in Ottawa shall see a sizeable donation. There may be […]

TORONTO – Now, mercifully, there is nearly nothing else. Even the bocce set has been stowed away for another season. Tradition dictates that the Calgary Stampeders’ offensive linemen engage in raucous rounds of lawn-ball following each week’s walk-through practice – and Saturday morning’s battle royale, under sunny skies at BMO Field, was the end of […]

TORONTO – Minutes after the Western Final’s conclusion, through the magic of FaceTime, it began. The back and forth. Ja’Gared Davis says they were “talking noise.” Taylor Reed says they were “talking mess.” You get the idea. Two guys – best friends who happen to be cousins, former classmates, former roommates, former teammates – having a go […]

TORONTO – The Calgary Stampeders have won a lot of games this season. And none of them will mean a thing if they don’t get one last ‘W’ on Sunday. The Stamps have been focused on the Grey Cup right from the opening kickoff of Week 1. Rookie head coach Dave Dickenson has kept his […]

TORONTO – The Calgary Stampeders have been saying that Marquay McDaniel is underrated for so long that they could be forgiven if they just gave up and stopped trying to convince everybody. The top receiver on the best team in the league isn’t an all-star? The guy who caught four balls for 137 yards in […]

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